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REV. LEWIS JOHNSTON. 



Advice to Boys 

With Information they ought to 
and must know. Their Make-up, 
Dangers, Traps that Catch Men 

Diseases and Remedies 
Self-Control 

Switchman to sidetrack evil ; to give 
right of way to main line of right 

"KNOW THYSELF" 



Wisdom is the principal thing, 
therefore get wisdom, and with all 
thy getting, get understanding 



By Rev. LEWIS JOHNSTON 

Author of " Words of Consolation to Friends and Companions " 

Editor of " Enterprise" 

Richard Allen Institute, Pine Bluff, Ark. 




THE LIBRARY OF 
CONGRESS, 

Two Cores Received 

JUN. 1 1901 

Copyright entry 

CLASS XXc, N» 

COPY B. 






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Copyright, igoo, 
By Rev. Lewis Johnston. 



PREFACE 



Dear boys — this book which in your hands 
you hold 

Is richer far than Klondyke's field of gold, 

In treasures to enrich your inmost soul 

Till floods of light shall round and o'er you 
roll ; 

It comes to you through trials strange and 
sore 

God's hand hath sent it you, prize well its 
store ; 

No ill shall thee befall if you take heed, 

Heed my advice, I pray, 'tis just what you 
need. 



TO THE BOYS OF OUR LAND 

in whose keeping the future interests of 
the country, moral and political, are to 
he entrusted, this book is 

EARNESTLY DEDICATED. 



Imperfect 
Claim. 

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They Didn't Think 

Once a trap was baited 
With a piece of cheese : 
It tickled so, a little mouse, 
It almost made him sneeze. 

An old rat said, "There's danger 
Be careful when you go ! ' ' 
* * Nonsense ! ' ' said the other ; 
" I don't think you know." 

So he walked in boldly — 
Nobody in sight : 
First he took a nibble 
Then he took a bite. 

Close the trap together 
Snapped as quick as wink, 
Catching mousie fast there, 
'Cause he didn't think. 

Once a little turkey 
Fond of her own way 
Wouldn't ask the old ones 
Where to go or stay. 

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She said ' ' I 'm not a baby ; 
Here I am half grown : 
Surely I am big enough 
To run about alone. 

Off she went but some one, 
Hiding saw her pass ; 
Soon like snow her feathers 
Covered all the grass. 

So she made a supper 
For a sly young minx 
Cause she was so headstrong 
That she wouldn't think. 



In the Hands of the Enemy, 

^R butcher, Mr. Jamison, was so an- 
noyed by rats that he determined on 
their destruction. He informed some boys 
of the multitude of rodants that infested 
his quarters. He sought their aid to help 
destroy them. His plan was to trap them, 
then with clubs in their hands, with vigor- 
ous blows, he was assured they could cut 
them short by seven times eleven in a little 
while. The plan was arranged, the time was 
set, the clubs were ready, pieces of meat 
were scattered on the floor some left on the 
block. It was a rat feast, the shop was 
left in their possession. They soon took 
charge of every thing, meat was in demand. 
When he returned, how they scampered ! 
How they hurried here, there, any where. 
It seemed they played a game, "Rats want 

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a Hole." The last rat found a safe retreat, 
then all was quiet. A rat here and there 
poked out his head to see how Mr. Jamison 
liked it, longing for him to scatter more 
meat and go again, 

For it was such fun — to eat and run. 

But he had an object in view — business 
on hands. The rats thought it very strange 
for him to shut all the holes closely ; tack 
all tight. But how pleased were they to 
find one open and Mr. Jamison gone. He 
had left to prepare for their visitation 
(when a person comes to your house, stays 
awhile and you feel sorry to have him leave, 
would like him to stay longer — that is a 
visit, but if his stay is so long that you are 
tired and wish him gone, then that is a 
visitation. The one is pleasant, the other is 
unpleasant). He was gone and now the 
good time was at hand, they thought. How 
often are we deceived, mostly like the rats. 
There was only one hole and to it they 
crowded and were in hot haste to get what 

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In the Sands of the Enemy. 

they had tasted — the meat which was in- 
tended to lure them to their destruction. 
They crowed, rushed, jostled, fought, 
trampled on each other. There was the meat 
and every one had a chance to fill himself 
to the full. They filled the room; they 
dreamed of no danger, all was well. No 
doubt they reasoned: I have eyes, I shall 
see if danger comes ; I have ears, I shall 
hear if any thing approaches; I have feet; 
and it will be a fast one to capture me. 
Thus they reasoned and the feast went on. 
So quietly did the door open and shut that 
those near it were hardly disturbed. Mr. 
Jamison and four boys were on the inside, 
they had come for a purpose. "The rat kill- 
ing time had come." It was a lively time 
among those feasting rodents. Every rat was 
now hunting a hole, hunting a corner 
where at he passed through. This hole and 
that hole was closed; more eager to try the 
next , the cracks and crevices . The room got 
warm with the hurrying rats, running, leap- 

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ing in earnest, now they play the last game 

of "Rats want a Hole.' T They found the 

clubs fall and rise; they were clubs for 

rats. Rats were slain until 84 lay piled up 

to amaze the comers and goers. Mr. 
Jamison might have wagered more than 

seven times eleven for he had seven rats to 

to spare at even that number. 

These rats were in a trap that proved 
their end. They did not know it, yet they 
feared and sought safety in flight, but too 
late. They were snared and taken. 

You have no doubt caught rabbits, 
coons, oppossum with dogs or in traps, 
snares or deadfalls ; you know how artfully 
they are concealed and the more innocent or 
harmless they appear the more certain are 
we of capturing the game. The game may 
be wise, cunning, great, strong, shy, crafty 
or quick; It is all to no purpose when the 
trap is set. Fortune may favor them for a 
wh 1 'le, but the end is sure to come. The 
wild ducks may keep themselves at a dist- 

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ance — they go to their feeding place as you 
know. They dive or stand on their heads, as 
one boy said. What makes them stay so 
long! Let us go and see ; why they are 
caught in a net that is stretched out under 
the water and their heads are caught in the 
mesh. The wild geese with their careful 
watchman go from one enemy and fall in 
the hands of the other; that is the plan. 
The partridges may hide with ease, they 
are so like the ground, but the dogs dis- 
cover, pointers or setters, and place them 
in the hands of the hunter. Traps are set 
and they walk right into them. Let them 
be ever so careful, watchful, cunning, 
they find themselves in the enemies hands, 
taken, captured. And it is that in which 
they delight most that proves their destruc- 
tion. In the spring of the year, turkeys 
begin to mate, the gobbler hears a sound 
— put, put, put, put. He comes carefully 
circling round or he may. make a mad rush, 
strutting gobbling all the while, till the gun 

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cracks and he is snared and taken. The 
hunter makes a call that sounds like a hen 
saying— put, put, put, and the nearer it is 
like a hen turkey, so much better is the 
deception. Wild geese set a watchman, 
but let him be the least negligent and the 
end is nigh. Wolves, bears, tigers, lions, 
elephants, and even whales are taken in 
traps or snares. These aids by which they 
are captured are called by various names — 
gins, snares, pits, deadfalls, traps — these 
mean (the device) by which some thing is 
captured. Some times the tables are turned 
and the hunter is captured ; is chased or in 
great danger. 

Some wolves gave a wagon with some 
boys in it a wild chase and were upon them. 
One boy knew how careful they were of 
what seemed a trap. He took a rope and 
trailed it out behind the rapidly-moving 
wagon and every wolf said by his actions 
" Good Bye." 

A lady in the jungles or wildes of Africa 
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was saved from a tiger by opening her 
umbrella suddenly. 

I have often sat and listened to an old 
friend of mine — a mighty hunter — tell of 
his adventures and strange encounters. In 
fact I have often been with him on these 
trips. 

He had studied the nature of birds and 
animals and was a master in his art, and 
learned much by experience, for he nigh 
lost his life repeatedly with dangerous 
game. I have listened to him, and took 
delight in hearing his stories. From him 
learned many useful lessons. Mr. Henry 
Dunton was acknowledged by every one as 
a mighty hunter, and game was brought in 
when Uncle Henry went hunting. Turkey, 
deer ? bear, coon, opossum, minx and fox 
would say, "Time is up for some one to 
day. I hear Uncle Henry's horn." With 
his red cap and jacket, or at night the head- 
light, it was common to hear the people 
say, "We will have some game, for Mr. 

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Dunton has gone hunting.' ' No one 
doubted that he would fail when he went to 
the woods. I have heard him tell of many 
an encounter with the fleet ones of the 
forest. And as he recited it he would live 
over the scene and pantomine it in such 
a manner that you would imagine you saw 
the game approach, hear the dogs, the 
breaking brush, the hunter's yell urging ov 
the chase, the crack of the guns ; the gath- 
ering round with merry jest, the division. 
These were all before the eye and ear. Or 
the lone encounter, when some bold stag 
would venture a fight ; the narrow escape, 
the victory— or at night ; shy at first, then 
growing bolder, attracted by the bright 
light, curiosity awakened, attention ab- 
sorbed until they approached in gun shot 
range with shining eyes ; then would ring 
out the rifle and the deer would fall, to 
rise no more. The well aimed shot had 
found the seat of life and all was o'er. Often 
on the scaffold at the deer lick, two or 

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three deer would approach ; the shot at 
first would scatter them for a moment. 
Determined not to leave behind their com- 
panion they would come again in rifle 
range to what proved certain death. I am 
going to take the liberty to copy in full some 
piece in this book that you have doubtless 
read or heard and have escaped your 
memory. With all the books in our 
possession we find ourselves compelled to 
go borrowing, and these at hand will 
enable you to keep your train of thought 
from being broken. 

You have seen moths circle round a can- 
dle or lamp or the electric lights . The end 
of them is sure the moment they start 
toward it. 

The advice given in the Song is as good 
for boys and girls as for moths. 

4 'Fly away to your home, pretty moth, in 
the tree where youv'e slumbered all 
day, 

Be content with the sun and the moon, 
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pretty moth, and make use of your 

wings while you may. 
Though yon dazzling light may have 

blinded you quite you will soon find it 

dangerous play. 
Many things in the world that look bright, 

pretty moth, only dazzle to lead us 

astray. 
I have seen in this world, pretty moth, 

Things as blithe as yourself and as gay, 
That all red by its tinsel and glare, pretty 

moth, from right paths have wandered 

away. 

With the tinsel and pomp, the glitter and 

show, they foolishly spent their best 

day, 

They have found to their sorrow at last, 

pretty moth, they dazzled to lead them 

astray . ' ' 

Something that looks like real worth or 

wealth, but is only tinsel, show, pagent 

and pomp easily and quickly lead to 

destruction, things as blithe and gay, things 

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in human shape with reason, judgment 
and discretion. They find things are not 
what they seem, that all things earthly 
are a delusion and a snare. Like the coon, 
turkey, deer, bear and other animals, girls 
and boys are caught in various ways, — 
there is all show of fairness, no appearance 
of danger. The crow's advice to the young 
crows, many of whom had been hurt by a 
wind mill was : "Keep away from the wind 
mill. "This will save many a crow. Monkeys 
imitate other animals. The hunters catch 
them by pulling off their own boots at the 
base of a tree, leave them a short time and 
then place them on again. They set, for 
monkeys, small boots well tarred or 
pitched, at the base of the tree and leave 
them. Each monkey comes and places on 
a pair of boots . Unable to climb, they are 
caught. 

Take the advice of the poems that 
follow in these pages. Make them your 
own and be determined to profit by them : 

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In the Hands of the Enemy, 

Little Fish, 

" Dear mother," said a little fish, 
1 l Pray is that not a fly ; 
I'm very hungry and I wish 
You'd let me go and try." 

" Sweet innocent, " the mother cried, 
And darted from her nook, 
" That horrid fly is but to hide 
The sharpness of a hook." 

Now as I've heard the little trout 
Was young and foolish, too, 
So he thought he'd venture out 
And see if it was true. 

And round about the hook he played 
With many a longing look, 
And " Dear me,' ' to himself he said, 
"I'm sure that's not a hook." 

" I can but give one little pluck — 
Let's see — and so I will !" 
So on he went, lo, it stuck 
Quite through his little gill. 

And so he faint and fainter grew 
With hollow voice he cried — 
' * Dear mother had I minded you 
I need not thus have died. ' ' 
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In the Hands of the Enemy. 

Do not be like the little fish — think old 
folks do not know. Many things by stern 
experience they know, and the cost of the 
good advice they are able to give. The 
little fish begs to be allowed to test. Wishes 
to try, to find out for self. He refused, 
neglected advice ; despised reproof and 
found too late the folly when the hook was 
sticking in his gills. The bitter end, the 
wormwood and the gall. 

The Spider and the Fly, 

' ' Will you walk into my parlor?" said 
the Spider to the Fly ; 

" 'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever 

you did spy. 
The way into my parlor is up a winding 

stair, 

And I have many curious things to show 

when you are there." 
" Oh no, no," said the little fly ; " to 

ask me is in vain, 

For he who goes up your winding stair 
can ne'er come down again." 
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In the Hands of the Enemy. 

" I'm sure you must be weary, dear, with 

soaring up so high ; 
Will you rest upon my little bed ?" said 

the Spider to the Fly. 
' * There are pretty curtains drawn 

around ; the sheets are fine and thin, 
And if you like to rest awhile, I'll snugly 

tuck you in ! " 

44 Oh no, no," said the little Fly, "for 
I've often heard it said, 

They never, never wake again who sleep 
upon your bed ! ' ' 

Said the cunning Spider to the Fly: 

44 Dear friend, what can I do 
To prove the warm affection I've always 

felt for you ? 
I have within my pantry good store of all 

that's nice; 
I'm sure you're very welcome — will you 

please to take a slice ?" 
1 ' Oh no, no,' said the little Fly ; " kind 

sir, that can not be : 
I've heard what's in your pantry, and I 

do not wish to see ! ' ' 

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44 Sweet creature," said the Spider, 
tJ you've witty and you're wise ; 

How handsome are your gauzy wings ! 
how brilliant are your eyes ! 

I have a little looking-glass upon my 
parlor shelf; 

If you'll step in a moment, dear, you 

shall behold yourself." 
41 1 thank you, gentle sir/' she said, " for 

what you're pleased to say, 

And, bidding you good morning now, 
I'll call another day. " 

The Spider turned him round about, and 
went into his den, 

For well he knew the silly Fly would 

soon come back again. 
So he wove a subtle web in a little corner 

sly, 
And set his table ready to dine upon the 

Fly; 
Then came out to his door and merrily 

did sing : 

4 1 Come hither, hither, pretty Fly, with 
the pearl and silver wing ; 

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Your rob^s are green and purple; there's 
a crest upon your head, 

Your eyes are like the diamond bright, 
but mine are dull as lead !" 

Alas, alas ! how very soon this silly little 
Fly, 

Hearing his wily, flattering words, came 
slowly flitting by ; 

With buzzing wi«g$sshe hurigialoft, then 
netan<attad nearer drew^nh- I A, 

Thinking only of fcg&' brilliant eyes and 
green and purple hue, 

Thinking only of her crested head. Poor, 
foolish thing ! At last 

Up jumped the cunning Spider, and 
fiercely held her fast. 

He dragged her up his winding stairs, 

into his dism^.fleri , R . ._ 
Within his little parlor — but she ne'er 

came out again ! , . 

And now, dear little child^e&^who may 

this story read, 
To idle, silly, flattering words, I pray 

you, ne'er give heed ; 
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Unto an evil counselor close heart and 

ear and eye, 
.And take a lesson from this tale of the 

Spider and the Fly. 

Mary Howitt. 

You are a reasonable creature with life 
before }^ou, examples worthy of imitation, 
and precepts to follow, which are the very 
oracles of God. 

For success in life and its full enjoyment 
much depends upon your action. The plans 
you have may effect many. The comfort 
and praise of the family and the whole 
community may depend upon your behavior. 
Yea! the destiny of the race may hinge on 
you. Look ovei your life and see how 
many, many girls and boys were caught 
when they least expected — just as animals 
are. See their sufferings — perhaps disgrace 
and bitter end. Note how they got what 
they wanted, but it placed them where 
they wanted what they could not get. Do 
not let any be so advised by you that they 
will walk into trouble. Let no one drop in 

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the pit on your account. Give no uncer- 
tain sound. 

The sin may be so tight-clasped we can 

not see its face. 
The trap may be so closely hid we can not 

see the place. 



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CHAPTER II, 

A Step Further,— Little Plainer. 

|HERE is a fable in which an ichneu- 
mon, a little animal not so large as a 
fox squirrel, is said to have addressed the 
inhabitants of a certain country who were 
frightened by the ravages of a crocodile. 

" I perceive your distress, neighbors, and 
though I cannot assist in your present 
difficulty, yet I can offer you some advice 
that may be of use to you in the future. 

' ' A little prudence is worth all your 
courage, for although it may be glorious 
to overcome a great evil, it is often the 
wisest way to prevent it. You despise the 
crocodile, while he is small and weak, and 
do not sufficiently consider that he is along 
lived animal and continues to grow as long 
as he lives. You see I am a poor, little, 

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A Step Further. 

feeble creature, yet I am much more 
terrible to the crocodile, and more useful 
to the country than you are. 

" I attack him in the egg, and while you 
are contriving for months together how to 
get rid of one crocodile, and all to no pur- 
pose, I easily destroy fifty of them in a 
day." 

Moral i 

"This fable, dear boys, is intended to 
show 

The danger of suffering bad habits to 
grow; 

For the vice of a week may be conquer' d 
'tis clear 

Much easier than if it went on for a 
year." 

It is easier to prevent evil than to overcome 
it. An 1 ounce of prevention is worth a pound 
of cure. ' Crush snake eggs and prevent 
their hatching; 

It is intended to' talk to you about only 
one evil in these pages. But we are anxious 
to warn you against all vile habits and 

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especially gambling, drinking, smoking or , 
chewing, and licentiousness. They go in 
pairs. 

Shun them as you would a viper. As 
soon take a snake to your bosom as any 
foreign substance to your mouth. Do not 
learn, or if you have learned, quickly undo 
the habit of using tobacco — chewing, smok- 
ing or snuffing. It unnerves you, unmans, 
unfits you for society and entails vice to 
your progeny. 

Do not use whiskey in any form. Its 
evils are unbounded in time and eternity, 
and the evils that follow in its train volumes 
cannot speak. Do not play for stakes or 
gamble, shoot craps or any game of chance. 
The other evil is to be presented you in the 
following pages. It is not desired to have 
you go into life half maimed or blind. Not 
as a hog tolled to the pen of the butcher, or 
as an ox to the slaughter. 

Now we come to the point which is the 
hardest of all to understand, and which 

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A Step Further- 

every one of our teachers is loath to present. 
There is a false modesty about us which 
makes us willing, anxious to place it in the 
background ; and yet there is no subject of 
such importance and no one we are so anxious 
to learn all about. 

The father and mother leave it for boys 
and girls also to learn by experience (the 
knowledge gained without a teacher), which 
is very hurtful. Bad boys tell you things 
and put them in the worst light. Then you 
see and hear things that make you shudder 
and ask "How is this?" Your teacher 
brings you to task for this and that, and 
shrouds all his teaching in a must not touch it 
style or manner. The preacher slips over 
it or perhaps some bold, valiant one strikes 
it some vigorous blows and leaves you to 
wonder. I talked in my lectures at several 
points and mentioned many of the things 
printed in this book. At each place some 
of the men got up after I was through and 
said they had never heard or understood 

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A Step Further. 

things in this light, and after this and evef 
on they were going to treat every girl, like 
they wished other boys to treat their sisters 
and mothers, that they would like all the 
girls to be so chaste, so pure, that if they 
were placed in a dark room and one was 
sent in to select a wife, he would bring out 
one chast and pure, and clean and upright 
— one as good as any in the crowd. Would 
that not be nice ? Would you not like it ? 
Would it not take a great deal of bad feel- 
ing and uneasiness off your mind when you 
see your sister or some girl you like go with 
boys that have been talking bad desires and 
intentions to you ! Every boy has in him 
something good, and when he knows how 
much depends upon him he will in most 
cases show himself a man. 

Now the following pages are going to tell 
some plain things, and when you appreciate 
them, and live up to the right, there is not 
a father or mother but will give you a 
warm welcome to their home, and there will 

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not be a lady but will be pleased with your 
company, and when ycu marry — as I hope 
you will some day — your wife will find you 
the pink of perfection in all relations and 
altogether lovely, in every part a man. Ob- 
serve my instructions, and then happy. re- 
sults will follow. And here I would 
advise you to be very careful in your selec- 
tion of a wife. Not so much her appearance 
as her qualities, for you are going to be a 
man and you want to mate with a lady. The 
first thing — see that she is a true Christian 
in word and deed . Then you are blessed 
of the Lord. If she is a proven follower of 
the Lord she will have all the fruits of a 
Christian. Just like a lion has all the 
actions of a lion. She will have a good, 
mild , lovable disposition ; faithful and true 
to you. She will discard all bad habits, no 
difference what they be, in order to be for 
you what she ought to be. If she does not 
show up the right kind of a spirit before 
you settle on her for life see to it and have 



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A Step Further, 

her lay aside faults and foibles. If she re- 
fuses to "reform it is time for you to look for 
the right kind. There are plenty of good 
girls. You will find pleasure in the hunt. 
Take your time. If you marry a peevish, 
fretful, quarrelsome, scolding, gossiping, 
smoking, tobacco-chewing, snuff-dipping, 
beer-drinking woman, your worst enemy 
cannot wish you a worse fate . And if, per- 
chance, you fail to have these good qualities 
I commend to you, the woman that fails to 
get you could not be better blessed, and 
might daily thank the Lord for the great 
deliverance from such a fate.. 



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Make-Up— Organs. 

You can ask many questions as you look 
at yourself — so wonderfully are you made. 
A dual creature. Double through-out — 
hands to handle, feet to walk, eyes to see, 
ears to hear, teeth to chew, bite, talk, etc., 
two lobes of the brain, two nostrils, two 
breasts. Man and woman have many 
things, such as mentioned and many more, 
but there is a point of difference, and only 
those things are given in detail that belong 
to the male, and if the other is referred to it 
is only to help make clear the relation or 
for some special purpose. The great differ- 
ence in the male and female is the gender. 
In grammar you learn of two genders — the 
masculine and feminine gender- That re- 
lates to sex. It is not the clothes you wear 
that makes sex, though the sex dress differ- 
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hair on the head and face. It is the organs 
of generation. These are great points of 
difference. 

You often ask the question : Why am I 
made thus ? What is the object of it ? That 
you may have a right understanding and 
keep out of the traps, gins, snares and 
devices that are set to snare your soul before 
you are aware. 

This book is written to save you from 
these evil things, and if you will pay strict 
attention to its teachings you will be happy 
and enjoy life. So will all connected with 
you. But if you disobey you will still find 
its teachings true though the end is bitter. 
Now I am well aware that modesty pre- 
vents you from learning many things. The 
delicacy, the privacy of many things place 
you in an attitude in which to ask questions. 
Listen to me. Intermeddle with all wisdom. 
"Ask and know. That's the way that 
great men grow." 

Wisdom is the principal thing. There-. 
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fore get wisdom, and with all thy getting 
get understanding. From God's hand 
everything comes pure, free and good, and 
the thing in us that is a part of nature, that 
there is a part or parts of us not to be 
touched, .not to be spoken about. To be 
kept free from taint. Thus far must thou 
go and no further. That feeling of the 
sacredness of those private parts is what you 
must intelligently train up in you and ever 
bear in mind. This is true modesty, but 
that you must remain ignorant is nothing but 
false, foolish or mock modesty, and worse. 
It is sinful neglect. The command is ■ * Know 
thyself. 

It is 'wrapping your talent in a napkin. It 
is shutting out light. Closing-ears against 
truth. Open thine eyes, ears and receive in- 
structions. It will be good for thy soul. 
Here is a case of true modesty, and every 
boy ought so to guard jealously his parts 
and keep them under law. A law in a 
certain country required a certain class- of 

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women to be examined. A girl was taken 
before the officers as one of that class. She 
protested and objected to examination, but 
was forced to submit when she became 
quiet and submissive. When the doctor 
said this woman is a virgin — declared she 
was all right — she walked to a window and 
threw herself out and 'was taken up dead. 
As soon be dead as to be humiliated 
thus. 

The ermine is a little animal, pure and 
white, of great value. It is very careful of 
itself. Will not go near anything that will 
sully it. Will suffer itself to be captured 
first. Hunters knowing this will place mud, 
slime or dirt in the path in which it is 
going. When it comes to the dirt it 
stops and is captured, because it will not 
sully itself in order to escape. 

That you keep yourself pure, clean and 
perfect is the right thing to do. Your pri- 
vate organs are God's especial gift to you. 
By this gift he made you a god. When that 

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which is wrong presents itself to you always 
refuse it. Suffer yourself to be slain before 
you will abuse or allow your organs to be 
made instruments of wrong to yourself or 
others. 

God's purpose is clear, and there is 
beauty, melody, loveliness, relation, tender 
and true ; father, mother, sister, brother, 
uncles, aunts — all your friends, science and 
progress, center round this, and radiate 
from it. 

God has made all things for the use of 
man. Know thou the God and Father of 
our Lord and His wisdom exercised in our 
creation, that we might glorify and enjoy 
Him. Man is more than dust of earth, 
minerals, iron, soda, lime, etc. Into his 
nostril was breathed the breath of life and 
man became a living soul. We are violators 
of God's law and want to appear as 
strict observers of it more than we really 
are. 

The importance you cannot tell. It can- 
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not be fathomed. It embraces all relation, 
all interests. 

It effects all conditions in time and 
eternity. These things will burst upon 
your vision as you pass along. You may 
fully understand this chapter by giving it 
special attention. You have doubtless seen 
little chicks, partridges, ducks, goslings, 
the little colt, lamb, kid or calf. At least 
you have seen a little babe . You have heard 
the old folks tell strange stories of whence 
they came. " Stump," ''Hollow leg," 
"Out of the clouds," "Left at the door," 
"Old Grannie has them for us," "Gets 
them in the woods,'' " Angels brought it," 
"Bought it." 

I for a long time believed that I was found 
up a "thorn tree," and when Old Grannie 
came along I cried and she took me down 
and left me at our house. I can remember 
then often asking me, ' ' Where did you come 
from, Lewis," and I entertained them again 
and again, overcome about my "thorn tree.' ' 

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I want to disabuse your minds of just 
such trash and truck baby lies. I want to 
tell you that you came just like the little 
chicks, partridges, goslings, ducks, colts, 
lambs, kids, the trees, plants, flowers. 
There are some variations, but all life 
comes from an egg. You were first a little 
thing, and grew and became a nice little 
boy, in time able to run around. Then 
grew older and wiser, and can now read. 
You develop into a young man (Adoles- 
cence — from childhood to manhood). Per- 
haps you get married just like your father 
did and you are blessed with a nice little 
girl or boy. I know you say like Nico- 
demus : " How can these things be?" You 
must know many things soon, and it will 
not hurt to tell you now some things you 
must know, and this is one you may find out 
in a way it will not do you the most 
good. 

The trees bear fruit. The corn tassels 
and silks. The flowers bloom their seed. 

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Plants all have their seeding time. Beasts 
of the earth, fowls of the air, grain, vege- 
tables. All grow and seen. Then the seed 
grows again. Thus life is continued and 
goes on from age to age. Thus the animals, 
trees, plants, fruit, flowers are continued 
from year to year for countless ages. 

Have you ever seen larva in the water, 
or in the rain barrel, or polly wogs in the 
pond? These will be just like the insect 
that laid the egg (or animal or reptile) . The 
mosquito that comes from the rain barrel 
to-day w r ill sing and bite just like the mos- 
quitoes sang and bit i ,000 years and more 
ago. Like begets like. Take up your bible 
and read Gen. 1 , and you will see that the 
seed of plants and animals is in each its own, 
like produces like. 

Who made Adam and Eve ? The answer 
is God. Who was their first son? Cain. 
Who made Cain ? God made him in Adam, 
as the rest are all made by means of a 
father and mother.' A father is one who 

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begets a child. A mother one who bears of 
births a child. 

This great power was given to Adam and 
Eve as one pair, to increase and multiply 
and replenish the earth and subdue it. Thus 
he was to be the means by which the earth 
and spirit world were to be peopled. Read 
Gen, 1-8 chapters. 

When the time to reproduce life comes, 
there must be a union to make one of itself; 
The rule or law obeyed by the pair produces 
action or life. And this is the way it is 
done. In the male there is a fluid in which 
are countless little things called spermata- 
zoo (that word is plural — many). One of 
these is called Spermatazoon (one). These 
are seeds, the substances which nature 
prepares for reproduction. (Sometimes it is 
the fruit of a valuable plant, as in wheat, 
oats, corn, rye. Sometimes it is enclosed 
in the fruit, as an apple, peach, plum, 
melon). Each one has its laws. Every 
seed produces the exact image of the origi- 

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nal. Now this will explain to you many 
things that will otherwise annoy you. 
There is in the female ova-eggs — ovum 

egg- 

The union of life -producing germs — one 

of the male with the one of the female — 

produces a living creature, with all the 

traits of character of the parents, their likes 

and dislikes, What they like it will like. 

What they hate it will hate. 

If they like music, singing, reading, 
study, work, the child will in all probability 
be inclined to the same, for the word says, 
*' His likeness." In the phonograph you 
can hear the songs and sayings of the 
artists. And you can make a record also 
in the big horn and place on the instrument 
and you will hear it play just what you 
said, with your voice and expression. So 
a record is made of just what }'ou are. We 
are just like our foreparents, and they are 
like theirs. 

You often hear it said, " Why he is just 
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like his father. M ' ' She is just as sweet as 
her mother.' r And it compliments parents 
to hear this, and rightly so. 

Here are their tempers in sweetness, their 
habits, looks, disposition, powers, traits of 
character, form, size. How necessary for 
boys to be men in every sense. Strong, 
steady, active, studious, manly, honest, 
truthful, virtuous, loveable, nonselfish, 

fear in loving and serving God. 

* 

These things occur in the marriage re- 
lation, which is pure, clean and pleasant, 
and God's blessing that comes through it, 
in the shape and form of an innocent babe, 
is the father's joy, the mother's blessing, 
the sweet cement of their love, their build- 
ing family. 

Who knows what lies nestled in it's 
mama's bosom. It may be a captain, 
general, to command forces, an orator to 
sway the multitude, a stateman to decide 
the destiny of nations, a musician, banker 
capitalist, great preacher or poet. Now I 

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have told you the truth and freed you from 
those misleading stories that left you to 
grope in darkness. Now you know that 
you are a god, that god-like actions are ex- 
pected of you. " Be wise to day, 'tis mad- 
ness to defer. " * ' Act well your part . ' ' 

" Know Thyself." 

There is nothing you cannot overcome : 

Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, 

On that some trait inborn makes thy 
whole life forlorn 

And calls for punishment that is not 
merited. 

Back of thy parents and grand parents lies 
The great Eternal Will ; that too is thine . 
Inheritance strong, beautiful, divine ; 
Sure lever of success for one who tries. 

Pry up thy fault this great lever will ; 
However deeply bedded in propensity ; 
However firmly set I tell thee firmer 
yet 

Is that great power that comes from truth's 
immensity. 

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There is no noble height thou can'st 
not climb : 

All triumphs may be thine in times 
futurity ; 

If whatsoe'er thy fault thou dids't not 
faint nor halt, 

But lean upon the staff of God's 
security. 

Earth has no claim the soul can not 

contest : 
Know thyself part of the supernaLsource ; 
And nought can stand before thy spirit's 

force : 

The soul's divine inheritance is best. 



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CHAPTER III. 

"Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery/ 1 

JHE commandments are very broad and 
God charges his chosen people that 
they be taught diligently, constantly to the 
children . Some say, ' ' You ought not to say a 
word to the children about these things.' ' 
Well that is the view from their stand point 
of false modesty. We must do what God 
commands. It is little difference how we 
feel or what people say or think. God knows 
what is best and has given his command 
that it may be well with us. 

In the study of these commandments 
there are rules to observe and in our case 
we will take these rules shortened : Wherever 
a sin is forbidden, all sins of the same kiud and 
all occasions, causes or appearances of these 
sins are forbidden ; and the contrary duties are 

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commanded. Whatever we ourselves are bound 
to> we are obliged to do what in us lieth to 
cause others to do the same thing. Make it a 
point to practice reciting the rules once a 
week after they are memorized. 

You will notice that where a sin is for- 
bidden all sins that lead thereto are for- 
bidden also. So this commandment requires 
us to be chaste in thoughts, words and 
actions, to preserve or maintain our own 
and our neighbor's chastity, in heart, speech 
and behaviour. 

Chastity is cleanness and purity from 
irregular fleshy lusts or pleasure. Our 
bodies are the dwelling place or house of 
our souls, and the Holy Spirit of God 
dwells with us, in us, and we must make it 
for Him a pure, clean, consecrated temple 
fit for His use. You want no uncertain 
sound, no false advice, no false signal gun. 
You want to build on a solid foundation. 
No untempered mortar. You build for 
eternity. Every thought and word and act 

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is the material of which it is built. Your 
work will be tried. 

Now young man, my dear reader, make 
no false move or you lose the game. 

One false turn of the wheel, O Pilot ! 
may send your vessel adrift on the shore- 
less sea into the strong current, or mal- 
strom, or the winds adverse to your fortune. 

On what foundation do you build, neigh- 
bor, your hopes for the future fair ? 

Do your walls reach down to the rock 
below, and rest securely there ? 

Alas ! what f oily to build, neighbor, a 
mansion so fair, so grand ! 

With its costly walls and lofty towers, on 
sins delusive sand. 

If you must build for eternity then it is 
best to make your foundation the Rock of 
Ages, Jesus Christ. He will stand through 
time and eternity, and prove all you can 
desire — a friend that sticketh closer than a 
brother. 

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any unchaste thoughts, impure, smutty tales 
that rouse passion or put you in a bad 
frame of mind, so that it runs on bad imag- 
ination of how this or that impure act would 
be or fire up the desires. 

Shun bad words, obscene books, lustful 
gestures or actions ; light or impudence and 
imprudent behavior ; dishonoring the mar- 
riage bed. Excess in eating, drinking, 
sleeping, keeping lewd company, bad com- 
panions, bad luscivious songs, and vulgar 
jokes. 

I recall the first I ever heard was from a 
girl. She belonged to a good white family. 
Where she ever learned them puzzles me to 
know. Where she so young and seemingly 
so fair and pure could learn such vile, wicked 
songs. Bad books and bad picture cards. 

I recall these while a soldier. Vile danc- 
ing in which your mind is excited at the in- 
decent displays of ballot dancers or ' ' Dance 
du Ventre," and the Kutchi-Kutchi, naked 
or nearly naked prostitutes. 

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The flirting of dresses, the shaking of 
petticoats, lewd postures — all to awaken 
sensual admiration. Stage plays that en- 
courage the same. 

You must not encourage, but rather give 
yourself to what is kind and pure, chaste, 
true, loving, elevating, ennobling, and by 
all means learn to distinguish between love 
and lust. This is the switch at which so 
many are side-tracked to ruin. 

Many young boys and girls, and older 
ones as well, have been thrown in each 
other's company in private, in the valleys, 
the mountain tops, on trips to different 
places, and no thought of wrong action 
nor improper conduct once crossed the 
mind. 

When you love you seldom think to do 
anything that will for once bring trouble or 
cause you to think less of what you love. 
It will be kept pure and clean. If you truly 
love a girl she would find favor in your 
sight. You would cherish and take the ut- 

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most care of her. You would see that she 
was not hurt nor harmed, nor sullied in any 
way. If }^ou lust you will take any and 
every method to effect your vile intention. 

Lust will degrade you; love will elevate 
you. Lust will make you vile, selfish, sor- 
did, low ; love will make you pure, chaste, 
lovable, manly. Lust will make you 
earthly, sensual, devilish ; love will make 
you godlike, continent, noble. 

This will help you to examine yourself 
and restrain many actions that are foreign 
to true love. This will help you to un- 
mask yourself, and you can see how vile 
you are and how deceitful the heart is. 

I talk to you as I wish some one had 
talked to me. I tell you what I longed to 
know, and wish some one had told me when 
young. Those things that concern my 
origin, the nature and design of my creation. 
I was allowed to find out for myself. Not 
that my father was careless or unconcerned, 
but was no doubt kept back by that false 

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modesty that I would like to see swept 
aside, that keeps back many now from tell- 
ing the children what they ought to 
know. 

" Know thyself" would be the rule, that 
we might love and truly serve our God, and 
love and admire the dear Savior who made 
the atonement, and redeemed and bought us 
by his blood. And take His Holy Spirit 
into our hearts and lives. But we are left 
to false ideas, a perverted creature, morbid 
appetites, and you will not be surprised in 
the least when you see in the following 
pages the result of such blind leading. The 
understanding, will, conscience, affections, 
memory — all averse to right and inclined to 



wrong. 



It is lamentably true, God has made man 
unright, but they have sought out many 
inventions. 

Why am I made thus ? The physiology 
of the schools drops me in total darkness 
when I want light. From top to bottom a 



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dual creature. Two parts, two eyes, ears r 
nostrils, double sets of teeth, two lobes of 
the brain, two upper and lower extremities, 
two hands, arms, shoulder blades, two legs, 
two feet and parts, two lungs, two divisions 
of hearing, double division of the private 
organ. 

Why all this ? For what are they ? Every 
thing has a design. 

Let physiology answer in part. Your 
eyes, to see ; your ears, to hear ; your 
hands to handle; your feet to walk, and 
the delicate organ of the brain, with its 
nervous system attached, is the link that 
joins your material and spiritual nature to- 
gether and fits you in time for other 
functions. 

God made you thus wonderfully that you 
might help to people the other world. That 
you might reproduce a creation just like 
yourself, endowed with intellect, sensi- 
bilities, will, a living human soul, capable 
of the highest enjoyment. 

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God created you thus, made you a god — 
his son — and endowed you with the will 
and power to produce a human being. Did 
you ever think what a noble creature God 
made, when you were formed. How he 
loved you, and sent his own son to redeem 
you from the curse of a broken law. Sent 
the Holy Spirit to cleanse, to wash, to 
purify and make you ready and neat to 
enjoy the highest bliss — happiness. Then 
sent his ministers and word to tell you how 
all things are ready for you, and for you to 
come and enjoy yourself. No joy that you 
delight in now shall be taken away. No 
pleasure shall be removed. But you have 
often heard the nurse sing : 

4 'Cherries are ripe, cherries are ripe and 
Charlie shall have some.' ' Well you must 
wait till fruit is ripe — apples, peaches, pears. 
Wait until you are fully developed for 
these higher joys. Nothing in which you 
delight shall be wanting and as we have 
referred to the fact of the male and female, 

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Thus God has made us, and you can trust 
His wisdom for their proper and right and 
full enjoyment in eternity. 

You will notice the male and female 
have things in common, but there is a point 
of difference. They see, hear, eat, feel, 
speak, walk, sit, think alike, but the differ- 
ence is in the sex, and as this is intended 
for a talk to boys I will only speak of boys 
or males. 

The private organs have man}^ names — 
penis, genitil organs, reproductive organs, 
or race producing, sexual organs — seeds and 
penis . 

This is the most wonderful, noble, excel- 
lent and useful organ in man's make up. It 
is a funnel through which your life or seed 
— your vital parts are to pour or be projected 
into a vessel of the female called the womb. 

Now we must not have evil thoughts of 
this in view of what we know. We must 
elevate our minds and hearts and see God's 
object in these for our good, our enjoy - 

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ment, bliss, ineffable eternal delight- and 
In a way that he has appointed. The 
sexual appetite is cognizant in its function 
about the age of fourteen. It is fully ma- 
ture about the age of twenty-one to twenty- 
four. The change of life comes in females 
about the age of forty-five, the male about 
fifty-five or sixty — lacks vigor, although 
the semin has life. The ovun is barren or 
unfruitful. After that age there is little 
likelihood of children coming to the family. 
There may be exceptions. 

The private organs are for the purpose of 
procreation or sexual intercourse in the way 
that God has appointed. He has instituted 
the family. Made woman for man to 
satisfy him, to meet all his demands, his 
desires and wants. 

She answers the object of his creation. 
She is his complement. Every man is to 
have his own wife . Every woman her own 
husband, and are to cleave to each other as 
long as they both shall live. 

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Hence we must never countenance 
divorce. Avoid separation. See that you love 
before you marry. Make well your choice. 
When united remain so till death. 

When a man steps aside from his wife, or 
a woman from her husband in order to 
gratify their passion r it is a crime that is 
followed up with punishment by the law of 
the land and of God, with great and severe 
penalties one after another. These laws 
imposed on man by nature, when she placed 
him in charge of her laboratory of the 
fountain of life, are never violated with 
impunity . The soul that sinneth it shall die . 

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, 
and lean not to thine own understanding. 
If you do not do so, you will find that you 
can never get out of the labyrinth. You 
will be like the Englishman who would not 
have a guide in the Alps, of whom Dr. New- 
ton speaks. 

These truths of which to you I speak are 
high and rugged like the Alps. He says : 

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K ' We had engaged a guide to show us the 
way across the Alps, and were to take an 
early start next day. There was an English 
traveler, staying at the same inn with us. 
He was traveling alone and wanted to take 
the same journey. He spoke to one of the 
guides about going with him , but thought 
they asked too much money. They could 
not agree on the price, so he concluded to 
go alone without the guide, as he was cer- 
tain to find the way. He started next morn- 
ing a good while before us» When w r e had 
gotten nearly half way over the mountain 
our guide stopped. He pointed to a dark 
looking little object far off from the path in 
which we were walking, and said, < There 
is the man who would not have a guide/ 
* He has lost his way. He never can get 
out of the mountains In that direction. If 
he does not come back he will lose his life.' 
Then the guide climbed up a high piece of 
ground and putting his hand to his mouth 
he called as loudly as he could, 'Come 

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back ! Come back ! ' There are mountains 
of truth beyond our comprehension, and 
without a guide one shall surely suffer.' 7 

From eight to fourteen is the ripening 
time in the female. The term used is 
puberty — time of flow, menses — the flowering 
time. Without the flower there is no 
fruit. That is the bloom, the blossom. 
The time in the male is from 12 to 14. This 
is the important time of life with boys, when 
they should be exceedingly careful not to 
abuse themselves, to keep clean, to wash 
frequently their private parts, retract or 
draw back the foreskin to wash away the 
smegma which is secreted there. 

The Jews cut off this foreskin, which is 
called circumcision, and the people of 
our day are making it the fashion because 
it is cleanly and removes cause of that 
peculiar, overpowering sensation that take 
hold of a boy, and creates that desire to 
know for himself that which must be re- 
strained or held in check. 

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At this age especially 3^011 must remain 
chaste, pure, continent and not yield to 
desire. No difference how hungry the fish 
is he must not take the bait and hook. They 
are both there, and } t ou must remember 
your life and happiness depend on your 
actions, and you may be made to mourne 
like the fish, " Dear mother, had I minded 
you I need not thus have died." A few 
times conquering the feeling it will bow 
beneath your will and you become master 
for life, and " Better he that taketh a city." 
Prov. 1*6-32. You must rule your spirit or 
passion. 

It can be done, boys; yes, it has been 
done many times. Prov. 16-25, "There is a 
way that seemeth right unto a man, but the 
end thereof are the ways of death. ' ' 

Girls are expected to be chaste, and boys 
should be just as pure. No burden should 
be placed on the female that the male is un- 
willing to share and share alike. These 
secret vices lead to other grave crimes, 

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little by little, step by step, till all his pro* 
tection is gone. Pro v. 25-28. 

L,oss of character, recklessness, vice, 
crime, the penitentary or gallows and the 
blackness of darkness for ever. This is a 
fearful pit, so not fall into it. Keep thy 
heart with all diligence for out of it 
are the issues of life. 

Prov. 23-12— Apply thine heart unto in- 
struction and thine ears to the words of 
knowledge. Prov. 4-13 — Take fast hold of 
instruction ; let her not go ; keep her for 
she is thy life. 

The temptation may be strong, but one 
who was tried to its limits said, ''Resist 
the devil and he will flee from you.' ' 

God has arranged the time and manner in 
which you can find yourself honorably and 
in a way without defilment or pollution. 
That is in your married relation and not till 
then. 

Now let us look at the vile abuse of what 
God wants and demands to keep pure and 

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clean. If any one steps aside from his wife 
to gratify himself, let it be in any way or 
manner, or to any person or being, he com- 
mits a crime for which he will be punished. 
He may think he is escaping, and cry down 
advice. He may yield to his lust probably 
as he thinks. ' ' But the mills of God grind 
slow, but grind exceeding small." They 
reach each one in turn, in its time, and 
must pass through the mill, Malachi 4-1. — 
Those that do wickedly shall be stubble. 
They shall have left neither root nor 
branch, Prov. 21-30. 

This is the Lord's intention, and it is 
written there is no wisdom nor understand- 
ing nor counsel against the Lord. 

Surely in vain is the trap set in the sight 
of any bird. Will a fox take hold of any- 
thing that has the faintest show of some- 
thing wrong ? 

Be sure in this that you are not like the 
turkey, gobbling, strutting to the gun that 
will surely turn loose to your sorrow. The 

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fly that buzzed into the power of the spider. 
The deer that failed to be warned by the 
shot that slew his companion. 

Do not be led into a trap by a bit of 
cheese. The old rats warn you of danger. 
He that being often reproved hardeneth his 
neck, shall suddenly be destroyed and that 
without rerned}^. 

My deai reader, do not be deceived. Re- 
member the moth, and avoid all that what 
seems to please. The moth may go to cer- 
tain destruction, and so will you if you. turn 
from these strong temptations that at this 
age beset you. Take the crow's advice : 
" Keep away from the wind mills. : 



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The boy or young man feels that he 
must gratify his sexual appetite, his lust, 
nor has he thought that for this once he 
is commiting a crime or sin. God has 
made the woman for his complement and he 
cannot arrange any plan aside from it with- 
out being criminal. He thinks I have no 
wife and no one will be aware of what I 
have done. No one will know it. It is a 
secret. It is private, and I shall be 
pleased. 

So he yields. He opens the door to de- 
sire, and a train of evils comes in, with this 
secret sin. His habit is soon formed. It 
grows stronger. It is a game now, and odds 
are against him. He abuses, degrades, 
corrupts, debases. His intellect becomes 
weak, sickly, forgetful, down cast, looses 
manhood. 

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Self Abuse. 

By his looks and actions he says to every- 
one he sees, " I have not control of my self." 
Boys think the sin is only known to them- 
selves, that no one will discover it. But 
like Jack in the Box — but turn the key, 
touch the spring and he jumps up in full 
view. 

It is like the genii in story, which King 
Solomon sealed in a bottle, which the 
fisherman found and turned loose by un- 
sealing. He finds now a mighty monster 
before him, bent on his destruction. Now 
if he is so fortunate as to again get him in 
the jar of self control let him by no means 
trust him anymore, but keep him sealed. 

Here is the case where the ounce of pre- 
vention is worth a ton of cure. 

Look at the boy for a moment that is 
given to self abuse or secret sin, or self 
pollution, or masturbation. He goes to 
school, he learns no lesson, memory's gone. 
He forgets where he left his hat, his coat, 
his socks, shoes. He is like an old man or 

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woman who sets out on a vigorous hunt, 
after the pipe in the mouth or the spectacles 
on the nose. He forgets whether he was 
sent for wood or coal, or whether he was 
told to come or go, whether it was Smith's 
Grocery or Jones' Dry Goods Store. 
He goes moping along with no thought of 
life or the work before him. His memory 
is not all. His mind weakens and is unfit 
for business. He cannot hold a position. 
His body fails under the strain . Often they 
cannot walk nor sit alone. He is a puppit 
or toy with a string attached called jumping 
jack. His limbs, arms, hands, head jerks 
about in every direction in a short time. 
Pains in their sides, back, limbs and other 
parts of the body. Often get dizzy, have 
catarrh, weak, leery eyes and other ail- 
ments. If they persist the bowels become 
diseased. They are demented or crazy, end 
their days in the insane asylum or fill a 
consumptive's grave. 

This sinful, disgusting practice unfits a 
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boy or girl for society, causes their thoughts, 
actions and looks to be low, sordid. The 
show of their countenance doth witness 
against them. He knows what he has been 
doing, the doctor knows it, the teacher 
knows it, the preacher knows it, his friends 
know it, the ladies know it, the gentlemen 
know it. He cannot hide it. It is no 
secret. It is now open. It has made its 
mark. Left its sign upon him— his 
actions. 

Bow your head in shame. Awaken from 
your foul sleep. You are asleep, like Jonah, 
fast asleep in the side of the ship. Think 
all is well, while a fearful storm is raging 
all on your account. 

The crime is awful. The boy guilty of it 
has no thought that the semen that flows 
from him is the vital fluid of an unborn girl 
or boy, and that he is committing murder, 
ruining the progeny that he in time is to 
farther making of them and himself idiots, 
imbeciles. He is truly a masturbater, a 

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Self Abuse. 

chief assassin, a ch ,: ef destroyer of human 
life. This word nay be a little strained in 
definition, but no more than the crime. 

This vile self sexual indulgence, which goes 
so far, that certain actions, positions, bring 
on discharge — horseback riding, badly-fitted 
bicycle saddles, tight-fitting clothes, lewd 
displays, highly seasoned food, dreams. 

The powers to copulate or generate, or 
both, are lost in time in such a case of Im- 
potency. A man should not unite with a 
woman, for this is really no marriage. It 
is asked in the marriage vows, "Do you 
know of any reason by impotency, or other- 
wise, why you should not be joined to- 
gether. ' J If one cannot perform the func- 
tions of married life, the woman might as 
well have united herself to a log of wood. 
Such a man is about as good as a counter- 
feit dollar for commercial purposes. 

The loss of semen has an evil effect on 
the nervous system, brain and spinal cords. 
If this practice be begun before full devel- 

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Self Abuse. 

opment is reached, it prevents the full 
growth of a masculine type of mind and 
body, and aids and abets insanity in the 
blood. 

The man or person who wants healthy 
children, with full organism and unimpaired 
nervous system, he must not abuse those 
organs upon which all inheritance depends, 
and withdrawal must not be practiced. 
This effects the child, if there is quickening. 
Some part is impaired — mind, limb or body. 
Congugal onanism must not be practiced, 
for it is mutual masturbation, and a crime 
that tells on both parent and child, to their 
detriment. In another place we give 
another reason which too often is over- 
looked. For the sake of the child or 
children no one should give quarter to this 
vice — so destructive to everything noble 
and dignified in human nature. It is said 
women practice this evil, but not so much 
as men. 

The habit practiced in youth hangs to 
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Self Abuse. 

men after marriage. Said a man to one of 
our professor's, " You know the bad habit 
I had when a boy. I am sorry that habit 
still sticks to me, although I have grown-up 
children,' ' and those children have like 
tendency. 

This crime has influence on the nervous 
system, producing hysteria in women, con- 
vulsion, menstrual disorder, aberration of 
mind, affects both man and woman in 
social relation and makes life a burden and 
failure. 



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Onanism, 



All these crimes in their classes are 
properly placed under one head in this 
day, but for the careful understanding 
of them by the boys I give this plan 
that may not stand the criticism of the 
learned doctors, but my intention will 
surely meet their approval and be sanctioned 
by them, and who follows will find some 
part of the way blazed, the stone removed 
and ditches filled. When crime has ad- 
vanced to a stage in which there is a loss 
of semen or sperm, which contains the all, 
the vital fluid, that is life giving power of 
man, and there is a loss of this under 
certain conditions. It is properly called 
Onanism. 

Turn to your Bible to Exodus 38 : 8,9, 
10 verses. You see the Jewish custom re- 
quired Onan to go into his brother's wife 

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Onanism* 

and raise up seed to bis brother. That is, 
he was to have children by her for his 
brother, so that his name be not lost from 
among the tribes. When in the act of copu- 
lation — ejaculation, he withdrew himself 
from her and spilled the seed on the 
ground. God killed him for this act. He 
counted it murder. He destroyed the unborn 
child. His brother's representative among 
his people, robbed him of his portion among 
the tribes. Thwarted the object of his 
association with her, rebelled against the law. 
Those who waste semen, the vital fluid, 
are followers of Onan, and are likewise and 
in like manner guilty. He perverts sexual 
feelings, defrauds, robs, destroys impulses 
of love, takes life and casts it carelessly 
away, Destroys the object of the marriage 
relation, destroys society, government. Un- 
fits himself for service, the object of his 
creation. Weaken his vital powers, his 
memory, reason, judgment. Becomes dis- 
pondent, irritable, unmanly. 

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Sodomy, 

This in the sin in which man not only 
leaves the use of woman, but lust after 
men. Rom, i: 27. Gen. 19: 51. 

The men of Sodom desired to use the 
angel visitors of Lot to satisfy their vile 
lust and refused the virgin daughters which 
he offered as their substitutes. " Bring 
out the men that we may know them, 1 ' was 
their cry. The men of Sodom wanted men 
instead of women and pressed Lot so sore 
that the angels interfered, drew Lot in, and 
smot the men of Sodom with blindness ; 
caused Lot to bring his people out of Sodom, 
for God would destroy the place for the cry 
of them had waxed great. Gen. 19: 12, 
Fire and brimstone was their portion , with 
the dead sea as their monument to-day. 

Those who practice this crime are classed 
with the people of Sodom , and their crime 

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Sodomy. 

is called Sodomy. It is practiced among 
soldiers and sailors, the heathen priest and 
others connected with this class. 

It unfits a man for marriage relation. 
It is beastly, nasty, polluting, as well as 
criminal in all the features of the lust. It 
grows on a man until he is lost to right, 
truth and purity , and falls into the lowest pits 
of the filth, guilt, strength and demerit of sin. 

His imagination darkened, his under- 
standing and all his powers blunted. He 
makes haste to beastiality. Judges 19: 22. 

Like beasts those sons of Belial beset the 
house. These men wished to commit so- 
domy, but the old man changed their minds, 
and gave them instead the man's concubine, 
and they abused her all night until day. 

Acting like beasts is seen boys and men 
in gangs after 'some female, like dogs or 
wolves after a slut or gip. Loose all sense 
of manhood, and think only to gratify lust. 
To this class belong those who drive weaker 
men from their beds. 

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Buggery. 



The crime of stooping to the lowest 
depths in the gratification of a perverted 
mind and vile imagination. The depths of 
this degradation shows itself in the use of 
dogs, cows, horses, hogs, fowls. 

Perverts — They that yield to any lust- 
ful object. That gratify themselves with 
anything in the shape of woman or any 
article of her clothing, to dolls. That yield 
to imagination from which sexual pleasure 
may be derived. To acts disgusting, re- 
pellent, and to common people in normal 
state is simply incomprehensible. 

And strange to say these different classes 
belong to highly civilized races, and seem 
lost to all ideas of morality and propriety, 
and are doubtless the heirs of a progenitor 
whose sexual proclivities have from time to 
time developed in slips of nature (lusus 

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Buggery. 

natura) , and here lies a great danger and 
perhaps the greatest evils follow to others. 

Hermaphrodites — An animal or human 
being, having the parts of generation of 
the male and female. Many of these have 
peculiar ways that distinguish them. The 
ways of a masculine nature, feminine voice, 
contrary likes. 

Pederasty — A crime of the Eastern 
nations, the same as sodomy, yet in this is 
(according to certain Latin writers) a cer- 
tain propriety or ownership of the boy. 
These are dark sides of human nature, in 
which the hand and foot exchange places. 
The man, the woman — transformation. 
The abnormally carnal individual gives to 
his offspring the same inordinate appetite 
that characterized the parent. There is no 
purifying influence can save it in him ; his 
nature is the germ of a vicious impulse. 
These evil, practices work out their worst 
effect on posterity. 

For fear it is not plain or clear, there is 
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Buggery. 

one way — that is God's way. The others 
are violations of law. 

Monogamy , means one wife. This is the 
way— one wife. 

Bigamy— -two wives. It is a crime, ac- 
cording to the laws of the land, and punish- 
able by the courts. 

Polygamy — three or many wives. This 
custom is common in oriental countries. 

Concubine , is a wife that has not been 
favored with the title and honors of her 
husband. 

Paramour, is a secret liaison. 

Mormanism — a sect that denies ; but it is 
asserted they believe in plurality of wives. 

Harlots — unchaste ; one who hires self for 
sexual commerce. 

Whore — -a woman who practices lewdness. 

Prostitute—one who offers herself freely 
for intercourse. 

Street Walker— one who inveigles by pub- 
lic show of self, as a practice, for base 
purposes. 

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Courtesan — one who prostitutes herself 
for hire, especially to men of rank. 

Procuress — a bawd ; keeper of house of 
prostitute ; conducts criminal intrigues. 

Pimp — a man who procures females for 
the gratification of the lusts ; a procurer, 
panderer. This last act of pimping is 
notorious in many sections, and I am in- 
deed glad that boys and men are waking 
up to a sense of its vileness, and answer you 
are knocking at the wrong door. 

Is it not an awful array of traps, gins 
and snares ; but it is not all, by any 
means. 



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Diseases and Cures. 

There are doubtless those who are far 
from a doctor, out far from a good one. In 
such a case, or to tone up and strengthen 
the organs, the following will be found 
helpful, but do not forget to consult a 
physician and the very best : 

Treatment For — 

Seminal Weakness : 

Keep from the cause of it ; stop abuse ; 
keep clean by daily washing ; be careful 
of diet ; take constitutional treatment. 
Ghonorrhoea (or clapp) : 

The following mixture can be taken 
internally : 

Sweet spirits of nitre, 3 ozs. 
Tincture of fluid, extract of Gelsemi- 
num, 2 drams. 

Take two-thirds of a teaspoonful in a 
little water, four or five times a day. 
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Diseases and Cures. 

For injection (into penis or vagina.) 

Tincture of anconite leaves, 4 drams. 

Water, 4 ounces. 

Infusion of Golden Seal Root may be 
used as an injection. 
Syphilis : 

The sore should be cauterized with 
carbolic acid, with glycerine, nitric acid, 
nitrate of silver and chloride of zinc. 

Calomel applied to the sore and rubbed 
in will do much to prevent spreading. 
Wash well with castile soap and warm 
water. Take blood medicine, constitu- 
tional treatment. Refrain from all narco- 
tics. Take no stimulants. Do not put 
off with the hope that nature will do the 
work and cure you. You might as well 
expect a house on fire to stop burning 
before it is consumed. 
Lice-crabs, tick, chiqeos : 

Carbolic acid and glycerine or cotton 
seed oil. 



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Rape, 



There are some folks who were never 
really hungry, thirsty nor suffered any great 
annoyance. They hear of crime and can 
hardly believe what they hear, yet crimes 
are done and by persons least expected. 
Stern passion makes men so forgetful. They 
become oblivious to everything. Will listen 
to no advice, place lust upon lust. Reason 
judgment, discretion, pity, dread, fear — all 
depart. 

Does the hawk dread anything when the 
sparrows are in sight. What pity has the 
lion for the lamb, the tiger for the kid or 
the cat for the mouse ; but no sooner is the 
act committed than they come back and, 
like officers, lay hold of the criminal. A 
sad record is that, 2 Sam. 13 : 1-23. 

Amnon's love was great, and like and 
unlike other criminals he was bent on grati- 

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Rape, 

fying his passion, little difference what the 
result. This was lust instead of love. 

As in his case often older ones plan, plot, 
arrange, pave the way for the act. Herein 
is a principle that few understand. Like 
mind begets like mind and even spirit. In 
association there is a reflex action. Into the 
soul of one is poured all love, devotion, de- 
light and, if it is reciprocated, the pleasure 
is unbounded ravishingly or commensurate ; 
but if is received in cold disdain, hate, 
bitter resentment; determination for revenge, 
this feeling is exchanged and flows to the 
person that has voided body, mind and soul, 
hence is empty awaiting return. When the 
return comes it is hate, disgust, revenge, 
enmity pouring in and filling the very being. 
This spiritual law is true and is not confined 
alone to this act, and might figure largely 
in divorce, and many cases in Amnon void- 
ing body, mind and soul. 

All the hatred to the act, determined to 
oppose it. These in full came into Amnon ; 

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Rape. 

his intense love was filled with her hate, 
and colored it, took possession of him, so 
that he hated her whom but a few minutes 
before he loved so dearly, and entreated the 
king to send her to him. 

He drove her from the house, "Arise, 
begone." He would not harken unto her. 
Expelled her and bolted the door. He 
hated her exceedingly, so that the hatred 
wherewith he hated her was greater than the 
love wherewith he loved her. There was to 
him a transmission of her soul feeling. 
And it is true, persons committing a crime 
will have in him the hatred, fear, desire 
for revenge that the female has in her. 
The wronged party transfers her spirit to 
the other person. It may be undying hate. 
Often they take their lives. 

The ravisher has no sooner committed 
the act than this mentioned dread, fear, 
smiting of conscience, causes him to shake 
and tremble.' His hate grows to white heat, 
and he has no peace of mind. Death is de- 

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Rape, 

sired. In " The Rape of Lucrece " Shakes- 
peare brings out this picture in full. 

Dear boys, never let it enter your mind 
to commit this crime. Allow no one to 
talk of this lewdness in your presence with- 
out stern rebuke. It is a suicidal act. Shall 
not the judgment of the Almighty make 
thee afraid. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

Marriage, 

ARRIAGE is a covenant between a 
man and woman (and it would not be 
amiss to • say a perfect man and a perfect 
woman) in which they mutually promise :o 
live together as man and wife. 

Cohabitation and a continual care to pro- 
mote the comfort and the happiness of each 
other. This forms a society — the family. 
These two persons of different sex unite 
chiefly for procreation and the education of 
children. This union is near and dear. In 
it and from it flows unbounded pleasure and 
nothing breaks the oath but death. It 
must be entered into with deliberation and 
at a proper age and with mutual consent. 
There ought to be no forcing by parents or 
friends, yet the consent of parents or 

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Marriage. 

guardians under whose care the single per- 
son is should be had. 

Christ honored marriage, and at it 
wrought his first miracle, John 2. This is 
the way in which families are formed and 
built up, the world peopled and heaven 
furnished with souls. 

It prevents incontinence, fornication and 
other crimes. Its relations render life 
a blessing. God's wisdom formed woman 
for man. He appointed the law to govern 
and control them and stamped his disap- 
proval on the violation. Man is a gre- 
garious animal. He likes company and 
wants a companion — one his own. Woman 
is monogamous. She is delighted, pleased, 
faithful to one she loves and wants to share 
her gleanings with no other. Nor will she 
allow another to come near her. 

The duties of this state on part of the hus- 
band are love for the wife above that shown 
to any person, father and mother — the blood 
bound is to be left for her, Prov. 5, 18-19. 



Marriage, 

A love of complacency and delight. 
Providor must be found in him for wife and 
family. A home his own, if possible, with 
all its comforts, fuel and food and clothing, 
i Tim, 5-3. 

He must protect her from abuse or in- 
juries, Ruth 3-9 ; 1 Sam. 30, 5-18. 

Doing everything for the pleasure, 
peace and comfort of his wife, 1 Cor. 

7"33- 

Seek her spiritual welfare. Do nothing 

that will interfere with her religious duties, 

but aid them ; promote her edification and 

felicity. The duty of the wife is reverence, 

subjection, obediance, assistance, sympathy, 

assuming no authority, continuance with 

him, Eph. 5, 32-33; Tit. 2-50; 1 Tim. 5, 

n-12 ; Ruth 1-16. 



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Divorce. 



Divorce grows common in our day and 
for trivial offences, but our Saviour gives 
the limit— except for adultery, Matt. 19-91. 

He is the oracle of God, Men fly from 
one State .to another to secure separation 
from the marriage relations, because it is 
easier secured in one State than another: 

Not long ago I was in to see a man sick 
at heart. I talked and perceived his mental 
trouble. He told me the cause. He had 
during his life accumulated considerable 
about him. He lost his wife and married 
again. The union was unpleasant and the 
wife left, and the likelihood was a divorce 
case on hand. 

One third of his property would give her 
several hundred acres of land, a number of 
horses, cows, sheep, goats, fowls and many 
dollars. This was the cause of his sick- 

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Divorce. 

iiess. Now she was lost and his property 
went with her. 

Is it not best to look before you leap, to 
wait instead of hasten, but traps are set for 
men as well as boys. 

In the Dissolution of the Marriage 
of Man and Wife, 

She may be separated from bed and 
board, with a suitable maintenance allowed 
her from her husband's effects. 

There may be divorce from the bonds of 
matrimony, This is strictly divorce- As 
is the case of adultery or through some im- 
pediment, whether of consanguinity or 
affinity, blood relation or marriage relation, 
or impotency of which there are 10 or 12. 

A decree that dissolves bonds, declares 
these bonds null and void. 

The rite or ceremony contains exceptions 
of these impediments. This is English law 
upon which our own is founded. 

I have seen some strange cases. When 
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Divorce. 

the clerk of the court entered the bill or 
suit, entered the decree that parted him and 
wife, then saw the minister unite them, the 
new husband and wife, all in a few hours. 
Woman plans to marry a man to get a hold 
on his property, then gets a divorce. 
Woman plans to marry to get a good home 
for her rising daughter, etc. 



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Fornication. 



Whoredom or the act of incontinency be- 
tween single persons. 

Fornication is both unlawful and un- 
reasonable will appear if we consider — 

i. Our Saviour expressly declares that 
this is a crime, Mark 7, 21-23. These men- 
tioned spring of an evil heart and defile the 
man. So "fornication" is classed among 
violations of the law. 

2 . The scriptures declare that fornica- 
tors cannot inherit the kingdom of God, 
1 Cor. 6-9; Heb. 12-16; Gal. 5, 19-22. 
Some will think, " Well, we will be excused 
from the sin.' ' The apostle puts it plainly, 
and advises us to be on guard. Be not de- 
ceived ; neither fornicators, nor adulterers, 
nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves 
with mankind. All this class shall not 
enter the kingdom of God. There be many 

who, for a few moments of pleasure, will sell 

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Fornication. 

their right to heaven, as Esau sold his 
birthright for a mess of pottage. 

3. Fornication sinks into a mere brutal 
commerce, subverts the design of its pur- 
pose to mere gratification of fleshy lust. 
Whereas, it was intended as a bond of union 
of a sacred, generous and tender friendship. 
But man grows so vile, the wiles and filth 
of a lewd woman, are preferred to his vir- 
tuous wife. His imagination is so depraved. 

4. It leaves the maintenance of the 
children and education utterly uncared for, 
so far as the father is concerned. In fact 
it places him often where he doubts his own. 
There is many a man calling that his own 
that is anothers, and teaching it to call him 
by those dear terms of relation to which 
there is no right in him. 

5. It strongly tempts the guilty mother 
to guard herself from infancy by various 
methods — drugs, abortion, pre-natal mur- 
der ; the child's destruction after birth, and 
often the mother. The newspapers are full 

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fornication. 

of cases of wilful, premeditated murder. 
The back yards, the wells, cisterns, ponds 
and streams are witnesses to this fact, not 
to mention the foundlings at the benevolent 
institution and the castaways at the found- 
ling hospital. 

6. It disqualifies the deluded creatures 
to be either good wives or mothers in any 
future marriage. They lead and live a 
double life. They' ever doubt themselves. 
They ruin that delicacy, the modesty that 
is a guard of nuptial happiness. There is 
a skeleton that like a ghost haunts her 
waking and sleeping, and causes sadness, 
she dare not disclose. 

7. It wholly unfits a man for the best 
satisfaction ; those that flow from truth. 
He knows he has been false ; those that 
spring of virtue. He has defouled his 
stream ; those that arise from innocent grati- 
fication ; these he has deceived. Those that 
cling to tender and generous friendship ; these 
he has ruthlessly distorted and twisted and 

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Fornication. 

betrayed. He cannot be a true father or 
husband, or friend, or feel that he is. He 
has been a seducer— leading the innocent 
astray. He has been all the while a living 
lie, a hypocrite, a thief; an aider of crime. 

8. It is the cause and perpetuation of 
foul venerial disease that prove maladies to 
the human race, affect and visit nations and 
generations yet unborn. 

With this array of facts can anyone plead 
for the extenuation of the crime. There 
are many of my readers that will look over 
these arguments and pile many of their 
own on the top of them and make it high 
indeed. There are many families in our 
midst where there is one, two, three, four, 
five, six, seven sets of children, and in 
many cases no father. I have seen twins, 
one light and fair, the other black and cun- 
ning. The father of one white, the other 
black. And it is common to see mixture 
of a whole community in which a man has 
a son or daughter in almost every family. 

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Fornication, 

The young man coming on wants a pure 
wife. He goes into a family like as men- 
tioned, and how does he know that it is not 
his sister, and two to one it is some rela- 
tion. He is innoceut, she is innocent, but 
the liaison is illegal just the same. 

The relation of father, mother, sister bro- 
ther become so mixed that the father be- 
comes his owu son in law, and the mother 
her own daughter. And the daughter her 
own mother in law. 

The days for all these ills to follow a 
family are past. Let every man have his 
own wife and remain continent until that 
happiness is consummated. 

Young men spring into manhood have 
little idea of the great and grave responsi- 
bilities of their acts. Young girls budding 
into womanhood have no idea of their na- 
ture. 

Having read the previous chapters and 
seen how relations are between yourself and 
others and how the purity of the race de- 

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Fornication. 

pends on you to do your duty, settle down 
in your heart like a young friend of mine 
now 20 and past. ■ t 1 have never had any- 
thing to do with a girl or woman and I 
promise you that I will not until she is my 
wife and only her will I know." That is 
the kind of stuff of which men are made. 
Every young man wants a pure girl, one 
that has not been tampered with and she 
has as much right to ask and seek and se- 
cure a pure man in the one that claims her 
affection, her love, her devotion, her life. 
She does not want to taste her lover and find 
him turn to ashes on her lip. She does not 
want to find him like the grapes of Eschol — 
bitter. He can say of truth, " my love, my 
dear, my undefiled, M 



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Adultery* 



Is the unlawful commerce between one 
married person and another or between a 
married and an unmarried person. 

A crime against the virtue of chastity- 
Mat, 5-28. The lusting after as much as if 
nothing prevented the act would be accom- 
plished. 

This crime includes all that can be said 
of the others, It includes the crime of se- 
duction and has in it more mischief in a 
complicated degree. It creates a new suffer- 
er — the injured husband. A painful and 
incurable wound is inflicted on his affec- 
tion. The woman's unfaithfulness is aggra- 
vated by her action in the family who are 
concerned in her, their parents shame. His 
crime grows as it is thought upon or dis- 
cussed. It is perjury, seduction. Often 
one commits the crime to get even — re- 



Adultery. 

taliation, but it is God hath said "Thou 
shalt not commit Adultery." 

All nations have considered this a crime 
and punished it. The Egyptians punished 
the man with a thousand lashes, the woman 
by loss of her nose, The Jews put both 
parties to death. The Greeks put out trie 
eyes of both. The Romans banished, cut 
off ears and nose, sewed in sack, and threw 
into the sea, scourging, burning. The 
Saxons burnt the adulteress, over her ashes 
erected a gibbet whereon the adulterer was 
hung. Thus the ancients have considered 
the crime. 

If a man enters an old or young female it 
is called illicit intercourse. If the parties 
have associated with each other it is illegal 
cohabitation. When the parties live to- 
gether without marriage it is the same. The 
General Government makes special pro- 
vision for colored people who have lived 
together before the war or thereafter as man 
and wife in the case of pensions because 

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Adultery. 

through conditions they were deprived of 
that knowledge which is necessary to make 
valid pension claims and the proving that 
they lived as man and wife will be proof of 
marriage. 



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Incest 

If parties having association with each 
other are related by blood or consangunity, 
such as brother, sister, uncle, niece, father 
daughter, mother or son, the crime is called 
Incest. This crime is unnatural and to be 
avoided. This is said to be a prolific source 
of puny, sickly, deformed, defective, idio- 
tic children. It is the source of other crimes 
and a breeder of murderers. All the crimes 
and inclination thereto of the parents are 
augmented, aggravated and brought to their 
highest development. 

Persons related by marriage or blood 
should keep themseives free from all inces- 
tuous conjunction. Let all such be held in 
abhorence. The one room cabins where 
girls and boys daily dress and undress before 
each other, grow up, sleep, eat, wash — I 

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Incest. 

must say I am suprised at so few wrong 
actions comparatively. 

Yet it is unpleasant to be thrown in a 
room with girls, rising on a warm night 
and finding thern uncovered. We feel 
ashamed for them, though they know 
nothing of it. This shonld urge every 
father to have separate rooms for the females 
of his own house and those that visit. 
Boys can see that this is done and things 
made pleasant. Guard well your sisters and 
all the visiting girls, your cousins and such 
like. Do not think because they are near 
relation and familiar you are privileged to 
take advantage of it and deflower them . They 
look to you for protection, show them you 
are a man in all things and that in your 
presence no foul beast nor snake shall 
trouble nor any beastly action nor snaky 
person approach them. 

Be a Jack the Giant killer to all such 
actions ; put them to death. 



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Seduction. 



There are traps set for girls, by means of 
wine, presents, promise of marriage, pro- 
fession of love and other arguments. She 
yields herself to the wishes of the male, she 
finds herself in a few weeks sick, she can't 
tell what is the matter. This is a sad state 
into which this poor girl has fallen into a 
pit dark and deep, a snare that may cost her 
life, a trap she has no thought would close 
on her. Her all gone for a mess of pottage, 
beyond recall, honor, virtue, piece of mind. 
What has she gained — nothing but shame 
scorn, disgrace, a blight, a hissing, a by- 
word, the scourge of tongue. 

This the best, the finest looking, the 
sweetest, most modest girl in the whole 
community, in the country, lost, gone to 
nothing and for what; to please the stripling 
of a boy that made approach to her. What 

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is she to do ? What can she do ? Many 
things suggest themselves. Some seek 
marriage which is the most honorable 
course, especially if they marry the author 
of ruin, This saves the mother the unborn 
child, the family and to a great extent, the 
community. 

Nine out often of the girls thus trapped, 
will resolve on death or murder rather than 
bear the odium, the disgrace, the seeming 
betrayal of all the confidence* of friends. 
The mother comes forward, and says some- 
thing must be done, this is the blow that 
settles matters. 

Said a doctor, you have little knowledge 
of how many are sending for all the patent 
nostrums of which they learn and the chil- 
dren are sacrified to the Molich of lust. 

L,et the father and mother gaze on the 
child that is born to them, bone of their 
bone, flesh of their flesh. Now take drugs 
and pour down its little throat, drugs you 
know will destroy its young life. If the 

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first dose does not finish the work, get some 
more ! Pour it down until life is extinct. 
The thought is unbearable. No one has the 
heart for such cruelty. Well slay it before 
it comes ! Array all your wisdom, call in 
all the help, tell the doctor she caught cold, 
tell the preacher she is sick, tell the teacher 
she needs medicine, tell the old grannie 
they know what — and it is time to work. 
All these forces start against the young 
child and it is no more. 

How many mothers are tempted to save 
their daughters by murdering their grand- 
children. Some come to the birth and grow 
up without a father, or his kindly counsel. 

O young man, pause, be true to yoifrself. 
You save the girl from shame and crime, a 
blasted life of grief, of self reproach, haun- 
ted by the one that with sweet innocence 
would have nestled on herbosom and called , 
her by that endearing term "Mama, " 
"Mama." Save the girls from silencing 
that voice for ever. You see one crime 

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follows another. Get on the right road : 
Only Gods grace through Christ can avert 
your doom. 

What is to be done ? True Christian 
conduct is a safe guard. "Keep thyself 
pure/' So conduct yourself with every girl, 
so behave yourself that all girls will find 
you a perfect gentleman. Be upright in 
conversation, chaste in conduct, leave every 
girl pure as you found her. If every boy 
will take this advice, we will find things 
change in every quarter and in every family. 
Happiness and peace of mind, abortion nor 
pre-natal murder would be mentioned. 

Dear boys, be warned, be chaste, con- 
tinent, noble. Have your own wife in time 
and see the girl you marry has her own hus- 
band, and has not to share her gleanings 
with a dozen others. Have one wife and to 
her be true as steel. If you do this and 
both are chaste, continent," true, you will 
escape all the diseases and so will she, other- 
wise you will find one crime follow another, 

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your house becofnes a drug store, a drain on 
your purse and patience. 



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CHAPTER V, 

Sowing and Reaping, 

^jfjftHE person, be he young or old, that 
IP violates the marriage law by proving 
untrue thereto, must suffer for it in person, 
and be sure " your sin will find you out," 
and there is no respect of person. This list 
is by no means complete. Those mentioned 
are the most frequented. 

Gi,KET. — A constant flow from the genital 
organs, occasioned by abuse of them. The 
drain is on the system, a feeling of damp- 
ness, the soiling of linen, a constant uneasi- 
ness with attendant evils. The young man 
having this may rest assured that what he 
has sown he is reaping. He wished the 
sensation of a discharge, and he has it. 

Ghonorrhoba. — This disease is con- 
tagious and comes to those who follow un- 

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chaste persons, or fornication, adultery, 
whoredom. It is seldom innocently 
acquired. Symptoms in the male is first — 
a slight uneasy sensation or tickling in the 
urethra. This is felt in some almost imme- 
diately, but generally from the second to 
the seventh day after exposure to infection. 
The organ grows reddened, then a mucus 
discharge is noticed ; then irritation, a 
state of heat, pain and swelling; the dis- 
charge becomes thick, yellow or greenish, 
and the pain in passing water, severe, 
erection and chordee. Takes a bow shape 
and often stricture follows. 

Syphilis.— A contagious disease that 
poisons the blood, ruins the whole system, 
proves fatal in three months unless re- 
strained. The disease will follow the 
children to the second and third generation, 
manifesting itself at times. 

The symptom at first is a local sore called 
chancre, which is inoculation. Then follows 
the swelling in the groin, called bubo, 

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generally one sinks the other, the left, mid 
great pain, rises and bursts, and from this 
eating sore even the very bowels are ex- 
posed, the face gives evidence in sores, 
manifesting themselves upon it. These 
diseases flow out as the portion of him who 
will commit sin, will not be guided, wants 
his own way. O how bitterly he repents 
when too late. He findeth her house the 
way of death and her guests are in the 
depths of hell. ' ' He reaps what he sows. " 

These diseases do not follow those who 
take advice and keep clear of such sin. 
Who does not abuse himself, is no mastur- 
bator, is not guilty of incest, nor sodomy, 
nor beastiality, who is not a fornicator, 
nor adultery, nor whoremaster, nor procurer, 
nor pimp. He does not assault nor seduce, 
hence he lives in peace and is quiet from 
fear of evil. But who goes the road to dis- 
traction will find his way is thorny, not only 
for self, but for those with whom he is asso^ 
eiated. 

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Sowing and Reaping. 

These diseases with kindred evils follow 
violators of law, both man and woman. 
The stout woman becomes like a tottering 
fence and bowing wall, a leaning tree, a 
rickety stairway, soon to be destroyed by 
the first severe trial. The female giving 
way to abuse or the other crimes has trouble 
— trouble of her own — excessive passion, 
loss of sperm, followed by . depression of 
energy, bad, vile, low thoughts, the dreams 
become filthy, the imagination runs riot, 
catarrh affects in its worst form, strength, 
memory, reason and common sense fail 
her. 

Then other diseases, with a weight of 
woe, she loves solitude, becomes despon- 
dent, nerves tremble — all by self abuse, a 
habit of masturbation acquired in child- 
hood. 

This most important secretion of the 
human system is wasted. It is followed by 
premature decay, impotency, consumption, 
St. Vitus' Dance, epilepsy, paralysis, weak- 

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ness of brain and insanity. The wife 
becomes peevish, fretful, barren. All power 
lost. 

If it should be your lot to fall into this 
net or trap, resort at once to the best doctor 
you can find. Do not fool with quacks. 
Get well and sin no more. Be sure you are 
well. Take constitutional treatment, make 
certain of a perfect cure for your own and 
seeds' sake. Be not deceived. 

"A whore is a deep ditch. A strange 
woman is a narrow pit. Who so pleaseth 
the Lord shall escape her. • ' A person who 
falls into this deep ditch is in a bad fix, in- 
deed he cannot get out without help. He 
must have aid to get out of a deep well if 
the fall does not kill him. 

Never have anything to do with a married 
woman. She is the property of another 
man. She is not yours, nor can she be 
while her husband lives. Do not seduce 
her or make her false to her husband. Who 

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so doeth this lacketh understanding and 
destroyeth his own soul. — Pro v. 9. 

When troubles, aches, pains and judg- 
ment stare you in the face you will know 
for yourself that the way of the trangressor 
is hard. By means of a whorish woman a 
man is brought to a piece of bread and the 
adulteror will hunt for precious life. If 
thou be wise thou shalt be wise for thyself, 
if thou scornest thou alone shalt bear it. 
Let me urge you to settle in your mind that 
you will lead a pure life. Keep yourself 
under. Be determined that when you marry 
— your wife shall have a man, a pure man. 
That if blessed with children you will see in 
them the impress of a prince and rejoice 
in this reward. 

Look over this fearful array and say like 
Joseph : How can I do this great wicked- 
ness and sin against God, 



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Self-controL 

Will mate the whole day a burden and 
care ; a mote in your eye will obstruct all 
your pleasure at a dinner. Too much salt 
will spoil the whole meal. 

A flea may cause you much annoyance. 
Thus you see little things will cause trouble 
that may end all. The chinch may spoil a 
night's rest. The chigoes, tick and mos- 
quitoes a pic-nic. 

Safety is not in escape from dangers of a 
frightful ship. 

The earthquake may be bid to spare the 
man that's strangled by a hair. 

There are traps, snares and gins for every 
turn in life. But the trap that will prove 
the most destructive will be that of sexual 
appetite. Its call will come like others. 
You are hungry and must eat. You are 
thirsty and must drink. You are weary and 

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must rest. But just as you can make a 
glutton, wine-bibber, a sluggard, you can 
abuse your sexual appetite, and this will 
prove your ruin as quick as anything else. 

Now you want to fix your road for 
travelling, takedown the hills, fill up the 
valleys or low places. Take out the stones, 
make your road bed like the rail road track 
— the rails upon which the cars run, smooth 
and nice. 

Then travel is pleasant. All this must 
be mental and spiritual work. You want 
to be a perfect gentleman. Polite and kind. 
I do not think you can find a better des- 
cription of a true gentleman than is given 
in the 15th and 24th Psalms: Let no one 
be more polite than yourself. Never show 
anger nor let it rest in your bosom. Read 
over God's commandments and live up to 
them. That is the moral law. Your man- 
ners are summed up in them. 

Love God and your fellow men. In your 
position you will find you are often insulted, 

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hated, scorned, but you must bear all and 
show yourself a real true Christian. When- 
ever an action is about to be taken by you 
and you are in doubt as to whether it is 
right or wrong, apply to it the talisman of 
love. If it lacks that spirit it is doubtful. 

How you are to treat the girls with whom 
you come in contact. By all means be kind 
and polite to these young ladies, and if any 
are tart or sour in her actions or speech you 
politely pass it by in kindness, never be 
rude, never, never, never. Do not make 
any vile advance, getting unpleasantly 
close up to a young lady, lulling, caressing, 
fondling, kissing, hugging, every time you 
meet, placing your hands upon her person 
or bosom, telling ugly stories, jests that 
broach on the obscene. Make it a point to 
be discreet, chaste, pure. Be a man. Be 
true to your promise. Be honest. Be 
truthful. Never talk or tell things that 
will hurt the reputation of a girl. Never 
say slight things of her, even if she steps 

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out of the way. Have in your mind, she 
belongs to the sex to which your sister and 
mother belong, and you are going to 
respect, even if the sight of her sickens you. 
I might sum up all in one sentence : Fear 
God and keep his commandments, for God 
will bring everything into judgment with 
every secret thing, whether it be good or 
evil. 

I was a small boy when I first visited 
Philadelphia. I went out to camp William 
Penn. While there I met a very pleasant- 
faced old gentleman, who asked me if I 
wanted a hand. I told him I had not any 
business for one to do. He asked if I 
wanted luck. I see you are a soldier, for I 
was dressed in blue, and of course would 
run the risk of losing life in battle and that 
this what he offered would keep me from 
harm. I wanted to know how he knew. 

Then he explained, this little red bag, 
which he offered for the low price of two 
dollars and a half, would ensure me luck — 

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while it was tied around or attached to me 
no harm could come to me. It would ward 
it off. 

This was very desirable, and many of the 
boys bought, as they were told perfect safety 
at two dollars and a half per head. 

I failed to buy one, but was very anxious 
to find out what composed the charm. I 
found out in time. In years after I deter- 
mined to myself, if there was any secret 
talisman that would bring success, I was not 
going to rest until I found it. I read the book 
of magic, black art, conjuration, necro- 
mancy. I left nothing unturned that the 
mind of man had discovered. And you can 
have the fruit of my research. 

Let me say, dear boys, much depends on 
yourself. You need not think some fairies 
or elves will come to you in your distress — 
that some talisman will fall to your share, 
and by it you will reach wealth and happi- 
ness. You need not hope for some lucky 
stone, or wish bone, or rabbit foot, that 

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will turn the tide of fortune in your favor. 
Perhaps your father, mother, teacher, 
preacher and friend can help you some, but 
your own brain and muscle, your spirit and 
will, your indomitable perseverance and 
energy, must do the work with God's 
help. 

" Where there's a will there's a way." I 
want to help you get in working trim. When 
a boy goes in swimming, he strips himself 
of everything, that nothing may impede his 
action. If he is going to run a race he di- 
vests himself of everything that would 
hamper him. So in the race of life, when 
the case is so very urgent, as you note in 
what we have passed through together, and 
the results of such moment, we must put 
forth our mightiest energies, for on our 
effort hangs the happiness of- self and the 
interests of eternity. 

On our success hangs the success of 
others. The wrinkle or seam in your sock 
will annoy you. Now there may be some 

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boys who have fallen into the bad places, 
and find themselves besmeared with filth 
and mire of sin. 

To make the start for reformation you 
must get a new heart, a new spirit. Your 
case is a sad one and the hope is that Christ 
Jesus has given his life for sinners, for as 
you see along the lines your path lies the 
road to destruction is in full view and your 
end is certain. So go to Jesus and tell him 
your case just as it is, and his big heart full 
of sympathy will take you in, for he was in 
all points tempted as we are, yet without 
sin. 



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Shun Bad Company, 

And if you are yourself, bad company, 
then by all means begin to reform to 
day. There is no hope for you as long as 
you are satisfied and willing to remain in a 
bad condition, the cesspool, the vile filth 
and dregs of society. You are to be pitied. 
Yet there is hope, if you will improve the 
opportunity that is now presented to you. 
Go to God, confess your sin, forsake your 
sin, and you will find mercy. Why shouldst 
thou destroy thyself when God will forgive 
and give strength to overcome. 

You feel that everything is against you. 
Well, you are against yourself. The men 
eminent as examples of pure lives, of men- 
tal vigor, of untiring energy, were bachelors. 
It is sufficient to mention Isaac Newton, 
Beethoven, Kant, Swedenborg, and Jesus of 
Nazareth. 

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These characters never thought that life 
depended upon sexual gratification. A 
character chaste, pure, prefers higher to 
lower thoughts. There is a difference be- 
tween sexual and sensual. 

It is possible for you to be destroyed by 
the passions within you. You can make these 
your servants instead of serving them. You 
can become master and ruler. 

To do so you must enter the contest with 
a stout heart and resolute will. See how 
other conquerers have done. Like Hercules 
choose a life of toil and hardship instead of 
a life of vicious pleasure. 

Two beautiful women appeared to him. 
The one that first spoke to him promised 
that if he followed her advice she would 
assure him " a life of pleasure all his days. 
He should have no toil or trouble. He 
would eat and drink and lie on the soft 
couches, hear cheerful songs, know no pain 
nor sorrow, but spend his life in the enjoy- 
ment of every good thing. ' ' 

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Shun Bad Company. 

Her bold forward manner did not please 
or impress Hercules, as that of a modest 
and good woman. She told him her name 
was Happiness, but those who hated her 
called her Vice. 

The second woman spake up to him — 
— Virtue was her name. She was modest 
in looks and speech and dressed in a pure 
white robe. 

She said, " I know thee, Oh Hercules, thy 
parents, thy history, and the toil that is 
upon thee. Follow my advice. Walk in 
the way I point out, thou wilt attain to 
honor and men shall speak thy praise.' ' 

She told him the gods give to men noth- 
ing that is good and noble without great 
labor. To be healty and robust he must 
exercise with labor and keep the body in 
subjection to the soul. 

Hercules chose her advice. His labors 
are read by every one. Patient self-denial 
may appear to many foolish, but that is the 
way, the true, the narrow way that leads to 

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life, and do you be one of the few that finds 
it. 

Now is the time for you to begin a new 
life of purity. Many temptations will come 
to turn you from the path of life into the 
road to destruction. Many a poor boy and 
girl entered that road thoughtlessly. What 
seems innocent pleasure leads to the gulf of 
despair. 

Remember that your body is God's tem- 
ple and you must not defile it. That you are 
to be made meet for Heaven, your eternal 
home, purchased for you by your dear 
Saviour. Gather strength from Him and 
live for eternity. Think of the welfare of 
thy soul. 

Why should I not gratify my desire for 
the female sex ? When nature calls why 
should I refuse to answer ? Is there any 
wrong done ? Wherein lies the harm ? The 
answer to all these is we are under law and 
must obey* or suffer for our disobedi- 
ence. 

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Your desire for the other sex is proper 
and right. Marriage is honorable in all and 
the bed undefiled, but whoremongers and 
adulterers God will judge. Dost thou not 
fear God? Be not deceived. Whatso- 
ever a man soweth that shall he also reap. 

A fly sits on the edge of the plate and eats 
to his heart's content of molasses. That is 
all right and no law is violated, but the 
moment he plunges into the dish of molasses 
he is cloyed, and what was his life is now 
the cause of his death. By effort he may 
escape, but odds are against him. Far bet- 
ter for him to be content and keep clear of 
what is danger if not sure destruction. 

To deny yourself, to exercise continency 
(when it is a male the word continent is used 
when a female chastity). A man must be as 
chaste, pure, clean, free from pollution, as 
he desires a female to be. You gain in 
health, in vigor of mind, strength of body, 
uprightness of soul, what you apparently 
lose in pleasure. 

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Shun Bad Company. 

Mahamot, the idol breaker, entreated by 
the men of Somnat to spare their idol, urged 
by a golden reward, refused to do so. 

" High he lifted his battle axe, 
Heavily fell the blow, 
Reeled their image tottering, 
Bursting, broken to and fro, 
From its shattered sides revealing 
Glittering gems of wealth untold. 
More than all the proffered ransoms 
More than all, a hundred fold. 

Thus turning from what seemed desirable 
to what seemed foolish he gained much more 
by odds. So our Saviour says to all his 
disciples, that who forsakes this world of 
pleasure will receive in the world to come 
life everlasting. And in this present world . 
great blessings. You refrain from secret 
vice. You escape all its consequences, 
ills- and evils, disgrace and shame, loss of 
health, with its sad consequences. 

You retain your power, your senses, see- 
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ing, tasting, smelling, feeling. You do not 
steal. Other boys that do run the minute 
an officer hoves in sight. 

Yea ! ' ' The wicked flee when no man 
pursue th." So with the other crimes, for- 
nication, etc. If you keep yourself clear 
then you are not afraid that you have been 
the cause of the ruin of some girl. That 
you have contracted some loathsome disease. 
That you are made a partner in crimes to 
stay public judgment, that must help some 
girl to keep her reputation by murdering 
her unborn child or committing abortion. 

Then curse the day you were born, of 
wish yourself dead, and cause the worst or 
pangs to the mother and father, sister and 
brother ; to all kinsmen, to the dear, to be 
pitied girl soon to be a mother. And will 
you draw down on your head this train of 
ills and father them all just for a few 
minutes pleasure — diseases of body, mind 
and soul, with their foul train. Take the 
virtue of a girl, a jewel that belongs to her 

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husband. Deflower her to gratify your lust, 
rob her of peace of mind, life dear to her 
made a living lie to shield you. 

' ' Be true to yourself at the start, young 

man — 
Be true to yourself and God. 
E'er you build your house mark well the 

spot — 
Te,st well the ground and build you 

not 
On the sand or shaking sod. 
Build high and broad and deep young 

man — 
'Tis a needful case demands — 
Till you enter your claim for the heavenly 

life, 
For the house not made with hands/ ' 

Life, life, eternal life, let be your aim, 
your object, your plea, your cry. Let not 
the seed of your body be wasted in any way 
not pleasing to your Saviour, God. No, not 
by self abuse, secret sin, masturbation, 

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onanism, sodomy, buggery, beastiality, or 
other foul polluting. Let not your useful- 
ness, your character, your happiness be for- 
ever blasted. Abstain from all appearance 
of evil. He that doeth wrong shall receive 
for the wrong that he hath done and there 
is no respect of person. 

11 How long we live, not years, but actions 
tell 

That man lives twice who lives the first 
life well." 

The trust that's given guard, and to your- 
self be just, 

For live we how we can, yet die we 
must. 



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Glossary* 



Abduct : To lead away, to secrete or 
hide. 

Abortion : To give birth before the proper 
time. 

Adolescence : From childhood to man- 
hood — passed into reproductive period. 

Affinity ; Relation by marriage. 

Assignation : An appointment of time 
and place of meeting — used for love 
meetings. 

Antiphrodisiac : Allay excitement. 

Auto: Self. 

Bawdy House : For immoral purposes. 

Belial : The evil one. 

Bubo : A swelling in the groin — equinal 
swelling, inflammation. 

Breeding : Producing fetus. 

Celibacy : Unmarried state. 



Glossary. 

Chaste: Pure, free from contact with 
man, separate. 

Chastity : Purity of body, free from com- 
merce of sex. 

Circumcision : Cutting off the perpus. 

Coition : Coming together of sex. 

Coitus : See copulate. 

Continent : Hold in check of the male as 
chastity of the female. 

Concubine : One not legally married yet 
acting as a wife. 1 

Conception : Act of conceiving — forming 
fetus in the womb, to breed, to be preg- 
nant. 

Copulate : Act of coming together in 
sexual intercourse , couple . 

Consanguinity : Relation by blood. 

Crabs, Crab-lice : A peculiar little in- 
sect that sticks fast to the skin in multitudes, 
appearing like scabs on the secret parts. 

Deflour : To deprive a woman of her 
virginity, either by force or with consent. 

Divorce : Dissolved marriage. 
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Glossary. 

Depravity : Corrupted, taint. 

Demoniac : L,ike a devil. 

Eunuch : A castrated man, to a man as 
a steer to a bull. 

Fornication : Incontinence of male or 
female. 

Foetus : A young child . 

Gonorrhea : Venereal disease. 

Gleet : Venereal disease. 

Genitals: Reproductive organs. 

Habits : Disposition of mind, good or 
bad. 

Harem : The division, allotted to females 
in large dwelling in east. 

Hermaphrodite : An animal or human 
being having the parts of generation of 
male and female. 

Happiness : An agreeable sensation that 
springs from the enjoyment of good. 

Hymen : The Virginial membrane. 

Harlot: A woman who prostitutes her 
body for hire. 

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Glossary. 

Incest : Crime of cohabition with per- 
sons related with forbidden degrees. 

Illicit : Not permitted or allowed. 

Imped imist : To hinder progress. 

Impregnate : Infuse the seed of young. 

Liaisin : Union of bond. 

Matrix : Cavity in which the fetus of an 
animal is formed and nourished till birth. 

Maidenhood: A virgin, untouched or 
maidenhead uncontaminated. 

Marriage : Union of man and woman for 
life. 

Midwife : A woman that assists another 
woman in childbirth. 

Nubility : Of marriageable age. 

Organ : Part of Body. 

Pox-Pustiles : Eruptions, restricted to four 
diseases, small-pox, chicken-pox, the vac- 
cine and the venereal disease. 

Procreate : To beget. 

Produce : To bring into being. 

Premature : Before birth. 

Penis: Male organ of generation. 
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Glossary, 

Pregnate : Rut to lust, as a deer ; rutting, 
breeding. 

Reproduction : To bring like into being. 

Ravish : To know a woman by force. 

Syphilis : A disease, characterized by ul- 
cer, scrotum, of a peculiar character on the 
genitals, succeeded by inquinal groins, 
bubos. 

Violate : Sexual intercourse violated. 

Virago : Bold, impudent, turbulent 
woman, female warrior, termagant. 

Virgin : A woman who had no carnal 
knowledge of a man. 

Virile : Strong, manly in quality. 

Womb : That part where the young of an 
animal is conceived and nourished till 
birth. 

Whore : A woman who has sexual com- 
merce with man for hire, courtesan, concu- 
bine, prostitute. 

Youth : That part of life that succeeds to 
childhood. 



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